OT:Shooting Ourselves in the Foot

Then why are they called Arabic numerals?

Market shmarket, read up on the definition of a market. Fair (including reasonably complete) and equal disclosure of information relating to the contemplated purchase is required. You do not find that very much in America. The correct adjective is Corporatism. Remember how everybody voted on OS properties(?) Nobody wanted their privacy protected, expected the thing to run for more than a few hours, gave a whistle about file system performance or integrity, expected their machine to be doing their bidding instead of another's they just wanted the newest gizmo to work. When M$ tried moving into the server market let alone high availability servers they got several shocking earfulls over this. Unfortunately having to support a terribly badly designed legacy system they cannot fix their problems.

I suspect that 99% is about the limit, assuming something similar to the "normal" distribution for ability (as if it could be measured in a single number). Numbers above that should be questioned and 99.8% should be an indicator of serious infanticide rates.

Sure as hell do. It was one of the nice coup's scored by the Apple Corp. Mac's. Damn, was that really 25 years ago?

Interesting issue, a portion us here can even write at the university level.

I have actually met MD's, here in America, that scared me that badly. I say has had already visited then twice the first time, it was also my last time.

I wish i understood what you are complaining about. BSEE, PE (Electrical CA, USA)

Among other things it is like MD licensing, it is of intentionally limited portability. Electrical engineers have it better than civil engineers in that comity is near universal (prove registration + pay the additional State's fees and you are in), but for civil's seismic requirements vary much more.